Seoul, South Korea-based Samsung Electronics Ltd has changed its plans for Hewlett-Packard Co’s Precision Architecture RISC and now says it will be working solely on superscalar versions of the chip, Electronic Engineering Times claims. It will be deriving proprietary low-voltage and highly integrated devices from the PA 7100 core design, rather than doing flow-cost versions of Hewlett-Packard’s scalar architecture, as the pair originally said was intended. Samsung’s initial plans were derailed by Hewlett-Packard’s difficulties in getting floating point processing units out of Texas Instruments Inc. Samsung has been collaborating with Hewlett-Packard on some of the low-end PA 7100 machines, which are planned to appear next month. Samsung will be a reseller of both the machines and the RISC microprocessor.
